Ali Ahmed Karti


Ali Ahmed Karti is a Sudanese politician. Karti served as Foreign Minister of Sudan from 2010 to 2015.
Karti studied law at the University of Khartoum.
Karti served as a commander of the Popular Defence Forces in the 1990s. Karti is also a prominent Sudanese businessman, and previously bought the Friendship Hotel in Khartoum for $85 million.
On March 17, 2020, the Sudanese prosecutor's office ordered his arrest for his role in the 1989 coup d'état which brought Omar al-Bashir to power. It said in a statement that his assets would be frozen.